Sheik (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Now Sheik joins the battle wearing the Sheikah costume from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Keep the pressure on your opponent by using his speedy dash to quickly close in on (or get away from) your opponent!

On-Screen Appearance

Idle Poses

Rears back her left hand up to her face, then quickly swings it outward.

Performs a modified passé.

Victory Poses

Left: Kicks once (similar to her forward tilt), spins on the ground (similar to her down smash), then poses with her arms blocking her face.

Up: Crouches, swipes with her hand twice, then stands up while rearing back her right hand up to her face.

Right: Performs the fumikomi geri[3] (a stomp-style kick in karate), followed by a mid-level side kick, and then exhales loudly before performing the tate shuto uke[4] (a blocking technique in Shotokan).

In competitive play

When Ultimate first came out, many top players, including ZeRo and Void, said that Sheik is no where near as good as she was in Sm4sh, due to her significant nerfs in her damage output, which was already lacking. Thus, Sheik was nonexistent in Ultimate's meta.

However, VoiD noticeably started playing Sheik again after Pichu had been nerfed and Sheik had been buffed in Patch 3.0.0. While playing Sheik again, VoiD has placed 9th at Glitch 7 - Minus World, defeating players such as Yeti and LeoN (albeit defeating LeoN using mainly Pichu) and 5th at Mainstage, defeating MVD, Muteace, and most notably Salem, while also taking MKLeo to game 5.

VoiD has expressed interest in mainly using solo Sheik and plans to do so. VoiD has also said that Sheik is still a high tier character, and he is the only notable NA Sheik player with plentiful results.